The Family Herald
Vol. 1 Issue 3
14 March 2004
Greetings
Hello to all of our faithful readers. I offer my sincerest
apologies for not getting this third issue out earlier. I
had initially anticipated publishing it over Spring
Break, but I was away from the computer for most of
that time. Hopefully this issue will feature lots of
interesting stories to excuse my tardiness!
With Sympathy
Sympathies are offered to The Russell Family of
Point aux Carr and surrounding area on the death of
Margaret Curtis Russell, wife of Wayne, of that
place.
The Russell family is related to the MacKenzie line
through the late Mrs. Will MacKenzie, formerly
Elmira A. Loggie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David
Loggie, Point aux Carr. Grammie MacKenzie’s
sister, Roberta (Loggie) Taylor, had two daughters
that married into the Russell line.
Ullock
The Ullock family, natives of Ullock, Cumberland
County, England, entered British North America in
May 1808, according to the Northumberland County
Census of 1851.
The first Ullock in
Canada was
Thomas Ullock Sr.,
christened 3 May
1796 in Maryport,
Cumberland,
England, the son of
Sergeant and Ann
(McKendrick) Ullock
Fig. 1: Ullock Pike, England.
(married 25 May
1794 in Bromfield,
Cumberland). Thomas was building ships with John
Doran at Chatham, New Brunswick, as early as
1825, and operated, at one time, a livery stable on
Duke Street .After Thomas’ death, the ownership of
the livery stable passed to his grandson Angus. On
11 November 1819, Thomas Sr. married the widow
Elizabeth (Elspeth or Alice) (Walls) Williston of
Glenelg, Northumberland County, New Brunswick.
Elizabeth was originally married to Joseph
Williston, who died at 30 years, father of two sons.
Elizabeth bore Thomas a number of children:
Jeremiah (1821 - @1872), married Ann McMaster.
Donald Sergeant (@1825 - @1918), married Emily
McRae.
William (@1825 - 6 October 1883), married Jessie
Sinclair.
James (@1827 - ).
Thomas (1827 – 28 October 1884), married
Catherine MacDonald.
Sarah Anne (@ 1827 - ), married Henry Gitchell.
Charlotte (@1830 - ), married John McMaster.
Mary Eliza (1829 - ), married John Williston.
Isabella W. (3 January 1832 – 10 November 1882),
married George Pelton.
Daniel (@1835 - ).
Jeremiah settled in Upper Black River Bridge,
where he operated a carding and grist mill. His date
of death is suspected to be sometime after 1872, the
year his will was probated. That same year, he was
granted 65 acres of land at Hardwicke Parish by the
Province of New Brunswick.
On 12 February 1845, Jeremiah Ullock
married Ann McMaster, a native-born British North
American girl with Irish roots. A John McMaster,
believed to be Ann’s brother, married Jeremiah’s
sister Charlotte Ullock on 1 August 1850, and the
two lived with Jeremiah and Ann in Black River
Bridge as late as 1851. Another of Ann’s brothers,
James McMaster, was living with the widowed Ann
and her younger children in 1891.
Jeremiah and Ann had the following children:
William Valentine (1846 – 19 June 1916).
Isabella P. (1852 – 14 July 1930), married Henry
Bowser.
Thomas (19 December 1848 – 25 May 1908),
married Marjorie Cameron.
Alice Ann (1854 – 29 January 1920).
Charlotte W. (1857 – 26 April 1929).
James J. (1859 – 17 July 1935) married Sarah Jane
Gulliver.
John Garibaldi (17 September 1861 – 15 August
1928), married Ann Doyle.
Jane C. (1861/62 – prior 1881).
Elizabeth J. (1865 – 30 October 1941), married
Benjamin Harding Haines.
Henry Havelock (1867 – 19 November 1938).
It is from Thomas Ullock and Marjorie
Cameron (11 October 1851 – 8 July 1915) that the
family of James Towers Dick Watling descends.
Marjorie was the daughter of Murdock Cameron
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He was a young man of peculiarly lovable
(1811 – 6 September 1866) and Margaret
disposition, sunny-hearted and generous and a
MacDougall (November 1816 – 17 June 1897).
great favorite with all who knew him. He was a
Family lore tells of a falling out between
dutiful and affectionate son and brother and his
Thomas and his younger brother, John Ullock, who
death so early in life is deeply regretted. The large
eventually moved to British Columbia. John was left
concourse of people who gathered Wednesday to
the homestead, while Thomas resided in a home on
pay their last tribute to him, there being 80 carriages
the south side of Black River Bridge, near the
in line, showed the high esteem in which he was
present-day St. Stephen’s United Church. There, his
held. The family have the sympathy of
twelve children were raised.
the entire community in this their double
In 1891, Thomas Ullock was
bereavement within a week.
appointed postmaster for the Black
Taken from The Commercial
River area, and remained in that
position until his death in 1908. This
newspaper of 27 July 1915:
BLACK RIVER LOSES RESPECTED
appointment may have been a
RESIDENT.
contributing factor to his falling out
The death of Mrs. Marjory Ullock,
with John, as the younger brother
widow of the late Thomas Ullock,
was listed as Assistant Postmaster in
occurred at her home Black River on
the 1891 census. Marjorie took over
July 8th, after an illness of four weeks.
the Post Office in 1908. Thomas’
Though her illness was seemingly
daughter Ruth, following her mother’s
serious from the first, her marked
death in 1915, retained the position
improvement for a time led to the hope
of Postmistress for forty-six years.
of her recovery by her many friends.
Thomas was a farmer of sorts,
Fig. 2: Marjorie
The late Mrs. Ullock will be greatly
and a well-known member of the
Cameron Ullock
missed by a large circle of relatives and
community. His death in 1908 was quickly
friends. Her bright, sunny temperament together with
followed by that of his young son a week later. The
her Christian faith and courage, notwithstanding her
home in which he was raised in Upper Black River
many recent bereavements, have endeared her to
burned after the turn of the century, and the home
all who knew her. Her memory will long be cherished
that was built as its replacement has since been
by the people of Black River.
destroyed as well. The home Thomas built for his
The funeral held on July 11th from her late
family is now vacant and beyond repair, although
home Black River was largely attended, about eighty
still owned by the Watling family.
Taken from The Commercial newspaper of 9
teams forming the procession to St. Stephen’s
cemetery.
June 1908:
In the death of the late Thomas Ullock, Black
The favorite hymns of the deceased “Nearer
River has lost a good citizen. A man of sterling
my God to Thee,” “Sometime we’ll understand” and
integrity and prompt business principles, he won the
“The sweet by and by,” were sung.
respect and esteem of all who knew him. Although
She is survived by her eight daughters:- Mrs.
he has not been feeling well for a couple of months,
Harry Wilson of Enfield, N.H., Mrs. Benson Wilson of
his last illness was of short duration. He was the
Chazy, N.Y., Mrs. Lewis Clark of Lowell, Mass., Mrs.
father of twelve children:- Nettie, of Lowell, Mass.,
John MacNaughton of Montreal, Nettie of Lowell,
Maggie (Mrs. Harry Wilson) of Chazy, New York,
and Josie, Bessie and Ruth who were with her at her
Annie (Mrs. Lewis Clark) of Lowell, Mass., Rae (Mrs.
death.
Ben Wilson) of Chazy, New York, Harry of Lowell,
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Mass., Alice (Mrs. Fred Hoyle) of Everett, Mass.,
This edition of The Family Herald is lovingly
Jennie, died in infancy, Lottie of Lowell, Mass., Josie
dedicated to the hardy Ullock men and women that
of Blackville, N.B.; Cameron, Bessie and Ruth at
helped to settle Black River. The name does not
home. Nine of them were gathered around his death
exist in the community, but will long be remembered
bed to receive his parting blessing. Harry, soon after
for its connection to integrity and respect.
coming home, was attacked with pleurisy. He was
not considered dangerously ill until Sunday at
midnight when heart failure set in. As soon as the
The Family Herald is a family genealogy newsletter
gravity of his illness was recognized, Dr. McKenzie
published occasionally for the benefit of the sons
of Loggieville, was summoned and although
and daughters of the Napan-Black River area. Feel
everything was done that medical skill and science
free to make copies and distribute it. To join the
could suggest he was too weak to rally and died
mailing list: barrymack4@hotmail.com.
before noon, Monday. His death coming so
unexpectedly and so soon after his father’s, was a
great shock to the family and the whole community.
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